Over Christmas break, a debate erupted among Trump supporters about American culture, immigration, education and how the H-1B visa program does or does not benefit the United States.
The conversation started when former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy posted Thursday that the main reason tech companies hire foreign-born and first-generation engineers over “native” Americans is due to American educational culture and a lack of striving excellence, but instead promoting mediocrity.
“A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers,” Ramaswamy wrote in a lengthy post on the social media platform X.